I was keeping my personal belief vs. what you can take from this study separate. If it quacks like a duck, and all that, but if nobody else has looked at this, it IS POSSIBLE that he has found something medically interesting. We don't even know the ramifications of this result either, even if blood-flow is lower, could it be because the people are more relaxed, and that it is a perfectly normal level for people? That said, my personal opinion is that this is bogus.

The Amen clinics have been accused of using questionable techniques (https://www.quackwatch.org/06ResearchProjects/amen.html and others, just google for information on them). This isn't to say that the data isn't true, but this result hasn't been confirmed by replication of the results by other researchers or more accurate scanning methods.

Back in I think 1996, when I was in the Air Force, a contractor sent to everybody on base the dancing baby animation. I think it was several megabytes in size. Nobody even had to reply to it for the mail system to crash.

On a related note, there is the infamous (in narrow circles) issue of the serial consoles on old Unix systems. Many had an option to "press any key for boot menu" on the serial console. The problem was that the serial consoles would get enough static interference to occasionally detect a character while this option was available, and it would halt the boot process. On a datacenter reboot (usually due to power loss), a handful of servers would never come up because of this. It was far more reliable to require a particular character to be received to break the boot sequence, although there is a risk that even that could be triggered, but FAR less often.

This basically sounds like QoS, where if there is network congestion, certain traffic can be prioritized over other traffic. If there isn't congestion, I honestly don't see what the point is to this besides to get funding to develop this "ground breaking" technology from investors. The entire reason why ISPs want to break net neutrality is to get additional revenue streams from content providers to make their services more enticing over competition to the eyeballs served by the ISP. The description of this technology seems to violate the entire reason for net neutrality to be violated in the first place.

Can you name one open water swimmer who won a medal in any prior Olympics? How about for Crew? I would say your long-term health isn't worth the financial benefits that the Rio open water sports provides you: http://moneyramblings.com/money-olympic-athletes-earn/.

If it charges at 3x the rate, that implies it's ability to pull power is at least 3x what the wired charger is pulling, and it would have to pull that from... a wired connection. This implies the main problem is that the car interface is simply designed to run at a lower power level than this wireless design, and this could be corrected by bumping up the wired interface charge capacity. This is just a case of leapfrogging specs, nothing more.

why does it matter? If they are taking the dollars, converting them into Euros to pass through Ireland for their tax scam, then sending it down to the Cayman Islands, a strong dollar just means it converts into more Euros, right?

The tech is actually already cheap. A local hospital performs a 35 point blood screening with most of the commonly done tests twice a year for $40 a shot, and they do this as a FUND RAISER. A link to the event from earlier this year (although very short on details): http://www.topofwv.com/ai1ec_event/blood-analysis-weirton-medical-center-2/?instance_id=

The reason that the tests are so expensive in the Dr's office is that they run each one as a distinct test vs. using bulk analysis. They should NEVER just do a "cholesterol" test, but it is more profitable if they split it up.

There is also an important issue about genetics. Some people don't require as much sleep as others: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleep-newzzz/201104/could-you-be-super-sleeper. I would have to ask--did they test if the people studied had genetic markers that flagged that they don't need as much sleep?